Extra SATA ports in New Mac Pro

[MrLatte23]

Anyone know if the new Mac Pro will have the two spare SATA ports that were in previous models? My NewerTech extender cable was a great addition for adding two eSATA HD's.

 

[J the Ninja]

In the 2009s those were run up to the optical drive caddy, no reason to think the 2010s will be any different. On the plus side, it makes it a lot easier to toss an SSD up there.

 

[JesterJJZ]

I would assume it's just two extra ports on the board, one of which is already used by the stock optical drive.

 

[sboerup]

Anyone know of an external case for the superdrive? Having that 6th sata port is a little more important to me than always having a optical drive in the machine. Anything firewire/USB?

 

[alphaod]

Anyone know of an external case for the superdrive? Having that 6th sata port is a little more important to me than always having a optical drive in the machine. Anything firewire/USB?

Just about any external optical drive will work.

 

[funkahdafi]

Just about any external optical drive will work.

Depends. If you need to boot anything other than Mac OS X (and maybe Linux, I am not sure) from CD/DVD, you are out of luck with an external USB/FW drive.

eSATA is what I would do.

 

[nanofrog]

Depends. If you need to boot anything other than Mac OS X (and maybe Linux, I am not sure) from CD/DVD, you are out of luck with an external USB/FW drive.

eSATA is what I would do.

USB should work as an All Purpose port (Windows will still boot from USB, as does Linux). eSATA or FW however, No.